A Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on luck and serendipity

Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you increase the odds of serendipitous encounters--you gain exposure to the envelope of serendipity

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Pages: 209